Process for managing a memory in a television receiver and television receiver

Abstract

Television receiver furnished with a memory ( 21, 22, 23 ) for receiving service data comprising a processing module ( 11 ) which correlates usage criteria received together with the service data and storage criteria characterizing the memory or memories of the receiver. By correlating the two criteria, the module determines the conditions of storage. Advantageously, a reorganizing module ( 12 ) can process the content of the memory so as to free some space in order to store new service data. The invention also relates to the storage process.

1. Television receiver furnished with a memory intended to contain service data, wherein it furthermore includes means for receiving said service data and usage criteria associated with the usage of these service data, a processing module able to correlate the usage criteria of said service data and storage criteria characterizing the memory with a view to determining the kind of memory used for the storage of the service data in said memory, wherein said memory includes an internal memory, an external memory connected to the receiver and a remote memory accessible via a network, the processing module being activated automatically on receipt of said service data and the associated usage criteria. 
     
     
       2. Television receiver according to  claim 1 , wherein it furthermore includes an evaluation module for determining the characteristics of said at least one memory and for including the characteristics thus determined in the storage criteria. 
     
     
       3. Television receiver according to  claim 1 , wherein it furthermore comprises a reorganization module analyzing the storage criteria so as to trigger a procedure for reorganizing the allocation of the stored information so as to free some space in the memory while complying with the usage criteria of the stored service data. 
     
     
       4. Television receiver according to  claim 2 , wherein it furthermore comprises a reorganization module analyzing the storage criteria so as to trigger a procedure for reorganizing the allocation of the stored information so as to free some space in the memory while complying with the usage criteria of the stored service data. 
     
     
       5. Television receiver according to  claim 1 , wherein the memory is of retentive type. 
     
     
       6. Process for managing a memory of a television receiver wherein it includes the following steps:
 receiving service data and usage criteria associated with the usage of these data,  
 searching in the receiver for storage criteria characterizing the memory,  
 and following the reception and the searching step, correlating the usage and storage criteria with a view to determining the kind of memory used for storage of the service data in said memory, wherein said memory includes an internal memory, an external memory connected to the receiver, and a remote memory accessible via a network.  
 
     
     
       7. Process for managing a memory according to  claim 6 , wherein it includes a step of evaluating the state and the characteristics of the memory so as to determine the storage criteria. 
     
     
       8. Process for managing a memory according to  claim 6 , wherein it furthermore includes a step of reorganizing said memory consisting in freeing some room in memory. 
     
     
       9. Process for managing a memory according to  claim 8 , wherein the reorganizing step is triggered when the available space remaining in memory is insufficient to hold the data received. 
     
     
       10. Process for managing a memory according to  claim 8 , wherein the reorganizing step is activated automatically during periods of non-usage of the receiver and/or upon the activation of a service data storage request. 
     
     
       11. Process for managing a memory according to  claim 8 , wherein the reorganizing step includes an operation of compressing the data in the memory followed by an operation of storing the data thus compressed. 
     
     
       12. Process for managing a memory according to  claim 8 , wherein the reorganizing step includes a step of transferring the data to an external or remote memory of the television receiver.